The England striker scored only seven in his title-defending boss’s 32 games, and that included a hat-trick against Manchester United.

But what a transformation since the Tinkerman was pushed out of the door as he’s added nine since Craig Shakespeare slipped into Ranieri’s shoes!

The latest secured the Foxes another three points as Shakespeare and Vardy have turned around Leicester’s season!

They have now taken 19 points out of 27 since dumping the man who led them on an open top bus tour of the city after their 5,000-1 Premier League winning miracle.And had Vardy been anything but a shadow of the current player then Ranieri would still have been in his job.

His goal, two minutes from the end of the first half, was so typical of last season’s vintage.

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Gliding onto Shinji Okazaki’s slide rule pass after a dreadful Salomon Rondon’s mistake just inside his own half, he delivered the perfect dinked finish over the on-rushing Ben Foster.

It sentenced the Baggies’ to a fourth defeat in a row and they’ve now gone 42 days – and an agonising 465 minutes of action– since they last scored.

Their dismal current record shows only one victory in their last eight matches and they’ve drawn a blank in seven of them!

Manager Tony Pulis must be mightily grateful that they picked up enough points earlier in the season to be safe.

If Vardy is on fire again, Albion’s Rondon is going through a monumental drought and hasn’t been on the scoresheet in his last 18 games.

He got his head to Nacer Chadli’s corner but could only send it across the face of the goal and inches beyond the far post.

And he unleashed a short straight at Kasper Schmeichel but, other than that, he offered no real threat leading a punchless Baggies’ offensive.

The champions were happy to soak up the pressure and rely on counter attacks and Vardy almost laid on a second.

His cross beat everyone, including the stretching Okazaki, who only needed a touch to double the lead.

The arrival of James McClean with half an hour left, gave Pulis’ team an injection of hope and it took a desperate stop at his post from Schmeichel to deny him an equaliser.

Another raid down the left saw McClean pick out James Morrison but he could only send his header into Schmeichel’s arms as the barren spell continued.

Shakespeare’s chances of getting the Foxes’ gig on a permanent basis are improving with every Vardy strike and how Pulis must wish that he had a Vardy.